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struggle4progress

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16. How could the loud objections to "birthright citizenship" be understood as anything other

Reply to pscot (Reply #11)

Wed Aug 19, 2015, 01:28 PM

Aug 2015

than an objection to the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment?

Our dear dear friends on the other side of the aisle have been thinking for some time now what they could do, if only that pesky sentence weren't part of the constitution: back during the reign of King George the Village Idiot, they were floating the idea in the hallowed halls of Congress that the Executive should have the power to strip anyone of citizenship and then deport

They'll wrap this move in xenophobic language about immigration, and that's ugly enough -- but it's really much much more

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WaPo: Did Republicans just give away the 2016 election by raising birthright citizenship? [View all] spanone Aug 2015 OP

That all depends fredamae Aug 2015 #1

Jeb Bush holds the line against this exboyfil Aug 2015 #2

"Let's get lost in the Bushes again!" struggle4progress Aug 2015 #5

Don't underestimate the voters yeoman6987 Aug 2015 #9

An attack on "birthright citizenship" is an attack on the Fourteenth Amendment struggle4progress Aug 2015 #3

Yup. tazkcmo Aug 2015 #6

I've heard it described as the "cold civil war". Seems applicable to me. mulsh Aug 2015 #10

I think the concern is more with recent immigrants pscot Aug 2015 #11

How could the loud objections to "birthright citizenship" be understood as anything other struggle4progress Aug 2015 #16

They gave it up some time ago without this. randome Aug 2015 #4

It just not Mexicans. There are plently of Europeans, Asians, Iliyah Aug 2015 #7

Exactly, we are all anchor babies! B Calm Aug 2015 #8

Yep if they propose revoking birthright citizenship then people of other nationalities could raise Monk06 Aug 2015 #12

good point. they can't seem to deport the undocumented already here treestar Aug 2015 #13

On a related note: The Wacky Birther Cases Against 4 GOP Candidates - Cruz, Rubio, Jindal & Santorum pampango Aug 2015 #14

Maybe Trump really is an undercover Democrat. Jim__ Aug 2015 #15